Christmas Awesomeness!

Christmas was so much fun that we're all sad to see it go! There were decorations, a homemade Christmas tree made of bamboo and palm leaves, individually decorated stockings hung up, eggnog, AND presents for all the guests to open on Christmas morning! Zach served up the best Asian Fusion Christmas dinner of Peking Duck, carrot and ginger soup, Chinese pork stuffed dumplings, sesame mashed potatoes, braised bok choi with pork, stir fried green beans, and everything covered in duck gravy!!!!

Christmas Presents!

Unique hand painted bamboo necklaces

Homemade Christmas Tree

The decorations

Stockings

Couldn't even stop take a picture of the full plates it was too delicious!

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2012!!!

LOVE,

 BREWHA

Another beautiful day!

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Our most adventurous guests to date!

Not only did we get our first walk-ins, but they just happened to be the most adventurous and exciting guests to date! Meet Bryan and Diana, from Cape town, South Africa. Bryan and Diana have been traveling for a long time! Starting in Buenos Aires, and going down to Ushuaia and back up, they are making their way to Anchorage Alaska, and then across to the Eastern coast of Canada. All in this incredible beast of a land rover! We wish you all the best guys, safe travels!!!!

Good luck Bryan and Diana Jones!!!

Best day ever!!!

Ok, at least to date...

Yesterday marked the arrival of Carlito, Brewha Mascot / love of my life! 

AND...

There was a rainbow!!!!

We got chickens!!!

So Sam and Aaron went to Paraiso to pick up some stuff for dinner, and CAME BACK WITH CHICKENS!!!!!

Please give a warm welcome to the Hicken family!!!

Meet Neil, Clint, Ryan, and Wayne Hicken!

Our hike!

It was one of those rainy, chilly days in the valley,  and we had some new guests, so obviously we decided the best thing to do this afternoon was to do the hike that goes from our property down the the ruins of the oldest church in Costa Rica, The Ruins of Ujarras. With the help of a rope, a shovel and a machete, we managed to get through the jungle, down the side of a mountain, across a river and through a chayote field to the church. We did a little bit of sliding, some shimmying, and some rappelling, and we ended up turning a gloomy afternoon into an opportunity for a fun spontaneous adventure hike!!! Here are some of the highlights!

Leaving the house

Heading down

Shayne, Gen, and Kate

Jax

Chloe

Karlien

Kate

Gen

Shayne

TEAMWORK!

Crossing the river

From within the Valley

From inside the Ruins

First REAL booking!!!

Had a very busy and awesome last few days. We had a bunch of friends coming up to spend a few days with us, and then BOOM, a real booking came through on hostelworld and we had our first random guests! Not only did we have a full house last night, but an hour after our FIRST GUESTS EVER arrived, the water stopping running and the power went out and non stop rain the next day!  We trucked on and eventually the power came back on and while we went a while without water and the weather didn't clear up until AFTER they left today, it was still a great time and everything went really well!

1 hour after our FIRST GUESTS EVER arrived!

Some of our friends from the first full house night

My faulty problem-solving skills this morning...

First autographs on our wall!

Thanks to everyone who took part in the best first full house party ever!!!

Thank you Mary Coffin!!!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

Thank you to Mary Coffin for designing us an awesome cool flyer!!!!

Front side

Back side

Cartago Day Trip!

Yesterday the girls of Brewha decided to take a personal day and go on a wild and crazy adventure to Cartago!

First stop: The Basilica de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles

Walking to the Cathedral

The Cathedral

Infront of La Negrita

Second Stop: La Ruinas de la Parroquia

Third Stop: Mercado Central

Walking in the market

The girls tried Ceviche for the first time!

All around, good day!!!

Another family dinner with some special guests!

We had another delicious family dinner last night thanks to Chef Zach! Last night we also welcomed some new guests, Sam from Massachusetts, and the ever popular...

Fearless Luke!

If you don't know Luke, then you should be ashamed of yourself. He's the coolest, most badass kid in Costa Rica! Who knows another 2 year old who can chop wood with a machete, use said wood to make a fire, and then fearlessly picks up beetles while surrounding adults squirm and run away? No one I tell you... no one.

Kate draws!

By: Kate

So turns out one of our friends here actually has some artistic ability and has sketched a lizard and a butterfly that we saw on the deck this morning!

Our opening BBQ!

A REAL SLOTH! (you can tell by the long fingers!)

Not only did we have our first sloth sighting yesterday, but we also had the arrival of Shayne, Gen, and Kate, our three volunteers / friends / awesome people for the month! We marked this day with a Welcome/ Opening BBQ!

Gen, Shayne, and Kate

Kate and Shayne sharing a hammock

Hanging around the main area

Impromptu Spanish lessons and storytelling

Enjoying the night view

Sitting around the campfire

Thank you to everyone for coming out and having a Brewha with us!!!